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Page 124
I could have beaten my head against the wall and howled , to think she'd get off at Simbirsk and I'd be stuck on board with my bloody broken heart . But there were still two days before Simbirsk , so I counted the hours and hung on .
I could have beaten my head against the wall and howled , to think she'd get off at Simbirsk and I'd be stuck on board with my bloody broken heart . But there were still two days before Simbirsk , so I counted the hours and hung on .
Page 154
And if a single one comes back alive , you'll pay for it with your head . ' ' Yes , Comrade Commander , ' said the officer , in the same dejected voice . Glancing at us illiterates , Antoshchenko slipped his sword back into its scabbard ...
And if a single one comes back alive , you'll pay for it with your head . ' ' Yes , Comrade Commander , ' said the officer , in the same dejected voice . Glancing at us illiterates , Antoshchenko slipped his sword back into its scabbard ...
Page 157
Its existence seemed a fantasy , a nightmare . At any moment , Antoshchenko could shoot any one of us down . Each man's life hung on what he might take it into his head to do next . Every day , we waited for some new , humiliating scene ...
Its existence seemed a fantasy , a nightmare . At any moment , Antoshchenko could shoot any one of us down . Each man's life hung on what he might take it into his head to do next . Every day , we waited for some new , humiliating scene ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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